Basic Obedience

[wolf_Q]

Nebo is officially enrolled in Petsmart's Basic Obedience class. We start next Wednesday at 7:30, though he doesn't get to go to the first class.

He completed the puppy class...he was great at times, and uhh...not-so-great at other times. I'm hoping he will be better for this class. It looks like all of his classmates are around the same age (6-9 months) and size (medium-large) so I think he will enjoy himself!

Please be a good boy Nebo!

[Fuzzy317]

Good luck Nebo. We will be getting our Ginger and the foster DJ in a class soon.

[primabella]

good luck to nebo! hope he has lots of fun! (and learns a lot too )

[slleipnir]

Good luck Nebo :] Zeke has to go to classes sometime soon too, but probably won't till summer

[KYS]

Hope you and Nebo have a great time in Obedience classes.

[Leiloo]

Good luck

Side note: beware of falling food bags. That happened to Leiloo just before her CGC exam and was completely spooked by them. It took me close to a month to desenthisize her to PetsMart and food bags!

[manda99]

Good luck! I bet Nebo will have a great time.

[lizbud]

Good luck with your classes Nebo...

Moki starts his next session of classes on Tuesday the 14th.
It's called Advanced learning,

Advanced Learning
We'll focus on performance despite distractions, and reliability when at a distance from a pet parent. Key topics covered in these classes include:

*Brief review of prior exercises
*Responding with and without reward
*Learning despite distractions
*Additional language ("heel," "stay," and more)
*Relationship-forming games and play
*Performance while "off-lead"

We'll have the same instructor he had in Basic Puppy class &
I hope he does well. The" learning despite distractions" should
be interesting

[wolf_Q]

Thanks everyone. I probably could have put him in the Advanced Class, but hey, it has been a while since he graduated Puppy Kindergarten.........I think it was in September. I'll be putting him in the advanced after he finishes the basic.

Melissa was going to have Lady in the class also, but her parents threw a fit! They say it's a waste of money, etc. Oh well, Nebo will probably be much better behaved without Lady there...

[Cincy'sMom]

Good Luck Nebo and Smokey! Cincy is starting a new class too, on the 27th. She is going to be a Therapy Dog!

[lizbud]

Just wanted to say that it wasn't my idea to put Moki in the
Advanced Puppy class, it was the instructor's advice. Our first
classes were so small that she pretty much could evaluate each
dog indivdually. I actually wanted the next class to be the
Obedience class, but I took her advice about the choice. I trust
her judgement, but think it will be hard for Moki. Maybe that's
a good thing, I don't know. Well anyway, Best of Luck with
Nebo in his upcoming classes.

p.s. Just read about Cincy's classes too. Way to go Cincy !!!

[pegwad16]

Good luck to beautiful Nebo I hope he does well!!!!

[ParNone]

hi wolfq!

kewl deal! Oz's last puppy class is this Monday at Petsmart.
He's done real good, but he gets a lil' bored with repetition.
If the trainer keeps adding new things, we do great. But if
we do the same thing too many times, he's like eh I already
know how to do that, let's do something else.

We're starting Basic Obedience Jan 30th at a training facility that
specializes in dog agility vs Petsmart though, because what I
really want to do is dog agility with Oz.

Par...

[Cincy'sMom]

Liz-

I'm sure Moki will do fine in his next class. The instrcutor wouldn't push him if he wasn't ready. Our girls were bumped up in their agility class...we signed them up for basic and they asked to move us to advanced. They did fine and I'm sure Smokey will do great "skipping a grade" too!

Amy

[DoggiesAreTheBest]

Best of luck to Nebo and Moki on their upcoming training!